Corbin on Contracts is peerless as a contract law treatise, and is one of the most cited and influential treatises in print. The venerable 16-volume Corbin on Contracts has been hailed as "the greatest law book ever written". Corbin contracts law analysis is exhaustive, and addresses all of the rules of contract law, including exceptions and variations. No other contract treatise matches Corbin on Contracts to help you prevent disputes and keep your clients out of court. Cited in the opinions of federal and state courts literally thousands of times, this exhaustive exposition of all the working rules of contract law has helped lawyers understand what the rules of contract mean and how they can be used in daily practice for more than half a century.

Publication of the Revised Edition was directed by renowned contracts expert Professor Joseph M. Perillo. In addition to the periodic issuance of replacement volumes, the set is updated twice each year with cumulative stand-alone and pocket-part supplements prepared by noted legal scholar Dr. John E. Murray, Jr. (1932-2015), former Chancellor and Professor of Law, Duquesne University, and Timothy Murray, Partner, Murray, Hogue & Lannis, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Authors / Contributors

Timothy Murray

Arthur L. Corbin

Joseph M. Perillo

John E. Murray, Jr.

Timothy Murray

Timothy Murray is a partner in the law firm Murray, Hogue & Lannis in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has co-authored the supplements to Corbin on Contracts since 2004 and the Corbin on Contracts Desk Edition (2017). Mr. Murray writes and lectures extensively on the law of contracts and sales. Among others, he helped to revise the 2017 Pennsylvania jury instructions for contract law. He has written various chapters in the Lexis formbook series Current Legal Forms, including chapters on the sale of goods, franchising, joint ventures, and equipment leasing. He has also written extensively for Lexis's Legal Practice Advisor. Mr. Murray has represented numerous businesses and individuals in litigation and transactional matters, including among many others, General Motors Corporation, Bayer Corporation, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Alcoa, Nissan North America, Avery Dennison, companies of the Marmon Group, General Reinsurance, TWA, Home Insurance, and Kawasaki Motors. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, in 1981, and his J.D in 1984, from the University of Pittsburgh.

Arthur L. Corbin

Arthur L. Corbin (1874-1967) was a professor at Yale Law School and prolific legal scholar. He was instrumental in the development of the philosophy of legal realism, and wrote extensively on contract law, most notably in Corbin on Contracts. He was also very influential in the Restatement (Second) of Contracts and his scholarship heavily influenced the Uniform Commercial Code. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1894 and earned his law degree magna cum laude from Yale in 1899.

Joseph M. Perillo

Joseph M. Perillo is a Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at Fordham University Law School. He is a prolific legal scholar and the author of numerous casebooks, treatises and journal articles. He is the former director of the Louis Stein Institute on Law and Ethics and was also in private practice after graduating from Cornell Law, where he was the Note Editor for the Cornell Law Quarterly.A.B., Cornell, 1953J.D., Cornell, 1955

John E. Murray, Jr.

John E. Murray, Jr. (1932-2015) was the University Chancellor and a Professor of Law at Duquesne University, where he was also the President from 1988 to 2001. He was previously Dean at the Law Schools of both The University of Pittsburgh and Villanova University. He was a prolific legal scholar and author and was a renowned expert on contract law.

TOPIC B IMPOSSIBILITYChapter 74 Impossibility of Performance - Personal inability Chapter 75 Death or Destruction of Specific Things - Prorating Available Supply Chapter 76 Legal Prohibition - Government Prohibition and Exigencies of War Chapter 77 Discharge By Frustration of Purpose Chapter 78 Impossibility of Performance of a Condition; Restitution in Cases of Impossibility

VOLUME 15 PART VIII CONTRACTS CONTRARY TO PUBLIC POLICY

Chapter 79 introduction to Contracts Contrary to Public Policy Chapter 80 Contracts in Restraint of Competition Chapter 81 Contracts involving Familial Relationships Chapter 82 Sunday Contracts Chapter 83 Bargains Harmful to the Administration of Justice Chapter 84 Bargains Harmful to the Public Service or to The Performance of Fiduciary Duty Chapter 85 Bargains to Defraud or Otherwise injure Third Persons Chapter 86 Wagering Bargains Chapter 87 Usury Bargains Chapter 88 Miscellaneous Bargains Contrary to Public Policy Chapter 89 The Effects of Being Contrary to Public Policy and The Availability of Restitution

VOLUME 16Answer Guide

The Answer Guide enables users to obtain quick answers and analysis to contract law questions and, since convenient reference to the relevant sections of the full treatise is always provided, easily engage in deeper research in the other volumes of the treatise